8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to
Samuel at Ramah,
8:5 and said to him, 'You are old and your sons do not follow in
your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other
nations.'
8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, 'Give us a king
to govern us.' Samuel prayed to the LORD,
8:7 and the LORD said to Samuel, 'Listen to the voice of the people
in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but
they have rejected me from being king over them.
8:8 Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out
of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also
they are doing to you.
8:9 Now then, listen to their voice; only--you shall solemnly warn
them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.'
8:10 So Samuel reported all the words of the LORD to the people who
were asking him for a king.
8:11 He said, 'These will be the ways of the king who will reign
over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots
and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;
8:12 and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and
commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his
harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his
chariots.
8:13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and
bakers.
8:14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive
orchards and give them to his courtiers.
8:15 He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and
give it to his officers and his courtiers.
8:16 He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your
cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work.
8:17 He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his
slaves.
8:18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you
have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that
day.'
8:19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they
said 'No! but we are determined to have a king over us,
8:20 so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king
may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.'
11:14 Samuel said to the people, 'Come, let us go to Gilgal and
there renew the kingship.'
11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul
king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of
well-being before the LORD, and there Saul and all the Israelites
rejoiced greatly."
